We rarely use coats on ours. They each have one, for super really freezing days, but they wear them maybe a half dozen times a year. I'm not a fan of dressing my dogs, so they have one because they do need it sometimes. But I'm in BC, our winters don't get as cold as yours. They only wear them to go outside, never in the house...even hating the heat, I can't imagine your house gets cold enough that they would NEED them indoors? lol.

When mine shiver they get dressed. Peanut, the LC, rarely shivers. The other two SC, have very thin coats and naked bellies. They need clothes even indoors. Piper is very thin and wears something almost all the time to prevent shivering. Something I've noticed that may be related, Peanut pants when it gets warm. The other 2 don't pant.

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